Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "AOC 'haunted' by the reality of her migrant rhetoric: Piers Mogran" video.
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There are a LOT of desk jobs in the city that can be done perfectly well from home, for a fraction of the cost and far less air pollution and energy use. I think that's what companies should want. They're just still figuring out how to get people who get their work done without somebody standing over them all day. Done properly, with proper training and the right people, working from home makes a ton of sense for a lot of desk jobs.
Physical jobs that require a real pair of human hands also exist in urban areas. But our commute culture is for the birds for a big chunk of office workers. We just need to train people differently/better, and maybe living in a box and going to an actual huge office should only be for beginners who need to get certified in-house before they can work from home. COVID turned a lot of people off from remote work because the of way they went about it. They got plunged into the deep end of the pool before graduating from water wing assist.
I feel this is also true for remote learning. The schools tried to move everything online in the '2 weeks to stop the spread.' Teachers didn't like it, weren't properly trained for it, but more importantly, children and families weren't properly prepared or trained for it. In the long run, it's going to be more effective and cheaper for most k-12 to be delivered directly to the home. But until parents get weaned off the free baby-sitting, the lack of one brick building to dump all the kids in for 6 hours a day put tremendous pressure on all the super-Moms, trying to raise kids without any help from a man. But even traditional marriages were stressed because most moms work outside the house, so there's a real reliance by ALL on taxpayer-funded free baby-sitting. No regard was given to the massive impact this had on parents when they locked us down, and now it's being used to convince people to stay with the traditional, free-to-parents setup that is the cause of the deterioration of education.
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